[mythtv-users] recommendations?: energy efficient FE/BE system

[James Miller]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Hika van den Hoven wrote:

> I don't know how powerful those devices are, but I do all my
> transcoding on my normal (6 core athlon) desktop machine even though
> my backend (dual core) could probably do it too. I can with no problem
> do 4 transcodings at the same time and stil work uninterrupted.
> Just have a slave backend running on the machine you want to use for
> transcoding and disable transcoding on the master.

Thanks for your reply, Hika. It sounds like you're describing a scenario 
where the front and back ends are separated, right? If so, I'd like to 
keep the combination FE/BE set-up I have, which is why I was asking about 
whether the ECS hardware would be up to the task of rescaling while 
simultaneously recording. It seems possible it might be, since the ECS 
system Dave described was said to be a combination FE/BE, like mine. Just 
was hoping to get a clarification from him (or someone else) on that 
before looking further into this option.